Live
your life, do your work, then take your hat.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
1817-1862, American
Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
But
what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion?
What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the
Dreamless Sleep?
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American
Humorist, Illustrator
Early
to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and
wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American
Humorist, Illustrator
At the
moment of death there will appear to you, swifter
than lightning, the luminous splendor of the
colorless light of emptiness, and that will surround
you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the
radiance. Try to submerge it is an obstacle blocking
the path of liberation. yourself in that light,
giving up all belief in a separate self, all
attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the
boundless light of this true reality is your own
true self, and you shall be saved!
-- Tibetan
c. 780 AD, Tibetan
Buddhist Esoteric Doctrine
